Irys

Hello dear friend, I'm Irina and I live in Connecticut. I'm pediatrician by profession. Most of all I like traveling, hiking, reading books and collecting postage stamps and postcards. I like to know something new about countries.

My favorite postcard collections are

• Space, Milky Way

• orchids

• owls,

• foxes,

• coffee, tea

• red cardinals,

• lighthouses,

• tausendschon

• maxicards and lenticular \3D postcards

• postcards with wonderful view from national parks.

You can send me what you really love.

Please write me a few words about yourself, your country. It would be great if you could write what happiness means to you.

I love collecting beautiful stamps and I do it over 4 years. Most of all I like stamps from 2010 to present.

My favorite stamp collections are New Year, Christmas ( non-religious), Space, planets, constellations, lighthouses, cats, owls, marine life ( whales, dolphins).

I would appreciate if you could use more stamps for envelope. Please no CTO, real stamps.

I love drinking green tea with fruits and flowers. It relaxes me in evening. 🍁 Here some suggestions on tea flavors

your favorite tea

green tea with fruits (pineapple, orange, mango, apple, pear, peach or something mixed)

green tea with berries (strawberry, raspberry, cranberry or something mixed)

green tea with lemon

herbal tea

flavors from plants or fruits that only grow in your country

I like Tea Squared (received from Canada), Teekanne (received from Germany).

I like coffee too and my favorite is cappuchino. Mmm..

Please do not send me advertising cards, coloring cards, religious, handmade, with insects.

Please, do not send me ribbons, tickets, ephemera, patterned papers, napkins. I don't collect these things. No school/award related things.

Please no CTOs, no head stamps and no USSR stamps (I have a lot of them). I don't collect architecture, sport, sculpture, famous people. No stamps from Germany please (I have a lot of them).

And I would like to find here friends and penpals.

I would appreciate if you could use holiday stamps on postcards and envelopes.

Thank you for all the kind letters and postcards!

If you don't receive a swap from me, please reach out first. I always send promptly but understand that sometimes things happen on route.